Renjith Kamath
Engineering Manager at The Apache Software Foundation
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRenjith Kamath is an engineering manager based in the UK with over 15 years of hands-on polyglot development and 10+ years leading high-performance teams across startups and enterprise firms. He blends strong product sensibilities with expertise in distributed systems, big data analytics, and data-driven decision making, having held technical and leadership roles at Skyscanner, Cloudera, Hortonworks and InMobi. A pragmatic manager who still codes, he contributes to prominent Apache projects—improving Zeppelin’s front-end UX and integrating Zeppelin with Hadoop via Ambari—which demonstrates rare end-to-end experience from UI polish to backend cluster integrations. Renjith is skilled at hiring and scaling teams for reliability and user experience while navigating complex compatibility and JDK/versioning issues in large open-source ecosystems. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who translates deep technical detail into product-ready solutions and measurable team outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (16)
apache-zeppelin10
javas10
openzeppelin10
big-data10
javascript10
spark10
user-interface10
web-development10
ambari10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
java10
html9
css9
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/zeppelin
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 79 PRs, 1 push in 3 years
Contributions summary:Renjith primarily contributed to the front-end of the Zeppelin project, focusing on improving the user interface and user experience. The commits involved refactoring code, fixing styling issues for various browsers, and implementing new features such as line number display. The user's work directly impacts the usability and visual presentation of the web-based notebook interface.
data-drivendata-analyticsanalyticsnosqlflink
apache/ambari
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Renjith primarily contributed to the Apache Ambari project by addressing issues related to the integration of Zeppelin, a notebook environment, with Hadoop clusters. Their work involved fixing bugs, improving compatibility with different Java Development Kit (JDK) versions, and integrating Spark 2.0. The user also worked on refactoring configurations and resolving issues that prevented Zeppelin from starting correctly within the Ambari framework. The contributions focused on integrating Zeppelin with other components and improving user experience.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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